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by nkoren 9mo ago
I absolutely appreciate and agree with the sentiment, but can't figure out what the proposition actually is. The thesis seems to be: "Here's a problem. We want to solve it." Aaaaaaaaaaaand ... that's it. Exactly how
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by nkoren 10mo ago
Agreed. There are mountains that don't survive getting crushed between two icebergs. If the sphere were made of solid tungsten, then okay, I'd buy it. Short of that, I have doubts.
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by nkoren 11mo ago
Eh, they got further than New Glenn did on its first attempt, and it succeeded on its second. They obviously made it through re-entry / retropropulsion in one piece and with a stable attitude, which is an achievement in itself. Looks l
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China's first orbital booster landing attempt(visitor.passport.weibo.cn)
8 points by nkoren 11mo ago|2 comments
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by nkoren 11mo ago
Airship To Orbit is JP Aerospace, not Bigelow. It seems like an utterly bonkers and fairly implausible concept and I'm definitely not equipped to analyze its merits. But the JP team have some legitimate accomplishments in the rockoon w
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by nkoren 1y ago
Personal anecdote time, which enough time has passed that it can finally be told. About 30 years ago, a family came down from the mountains near San Luis Obispo to ask whether my mother could teach them piano. They were an unusual family --
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by nkoren 1y ago
Not explicitly arguing against the thesis of the website, but showing trend lines which allegedly started in 2007 with data that starts in 2006 is... Not convincing.
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by nkoren 1y ago
Yes, it would be absolutely irrational and indefensible to block people from building solar farms where there is a straightforward commercial case for doing so. Unfortunately, "irrational and indefensible" is exactly what this adm
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by nkoren 1y ago
I'm in Chrome on Windows. No scroll bars here.
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by nkoren 1y ago
Nope, Windows
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by nkoren 1y ago
Transport planner here. Haven't played either game, but it sounds like Motorways has an accurate model behind it. That's how the real world works, too.
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by nkoren 1y ago
A: this is cool, well done. B: I miss scroll bars. I really, really miss scroll bars.
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The Weird OS Built Around a Database (Asianometry)(youtube.com)
2 points by nkoren 1y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 1y ago
Hard to imagine that the US wouldn't be as paranoid, self-sabotaging, and bureaucratically inept as possible? </sarcasm>
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by nkoren 1y ago
The dinosaurs are concrete, and date from 1852. That's 7 years before Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and 55 years before the invention of plastic. So they're a kind of amazing window into the pre-history of paleontolog
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by nkoren 1y ago
The standard joke is that English isn't actually a language: it's three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat, which go around beating up other languages and rifling through their pockets for loose vocabular
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by nkoren 1y ago
So if you want to remember how to spell "phone", you first have to remember "puh-hon-eh"? I'm not sure that'd be an improvement. How do you even make a phonetic word out of something like "rough"? The
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by nkoren 1y ago
See my later reply to the parent comment, but basically, first there's the creation of the whole world and all the peoples in it, then there's the creation of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Even and so forth. The first is ascribe
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by nkoren 1y ago
This is all absolutely correct. To amplify this point for people unfamiliar with it, the two creation stories are: 1. God separates the light from the darkness, the earth from the water, and creates all the plants and animals and peoples of
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by nkoren 1y ago
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt...
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by nkoren 1y ago
Indeed. At 3C in London, the humidity seeps into every pore and settles into your bones. Riding a bike at 3C, unless you're wearing a balaclava and a ski mask, is an exercise in pure pain, as the wetness sublimating off your face has a
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by nkoren 1y ago
Not a truck guy, but I like it. What I like the most is that it's not batshit fucking insane. I recently visited America after a couple of years away, and spent a couple of weeks in California, driving from SF to LA. The thing which I
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by nkoren 1y ago
I've been doing AI-assisted coding for several months now, and have found a good balance that works for me. I'm working in Typescript and React, neither of which I know particularly well (although I know ES6 very well). In most ca
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by nkoren 2y ago
Yes. They added greek letters to make themselves sound smart. But the terms cancel out and are therefore meaningless.
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by nkoren 2y ago
About 20,000 years in fact.
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by nkoren 2y ago
;-)
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by nkoren 2y ago
Wow, this is a person who could be fatally nerd-sniped if you suggest that their next CSS trick should be an aperiodic monotile...
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by nkoren 2y ago
It's ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny, all the way down.
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by nkoren 2y ago
Excuse me? I'm familiar with the Mariner camera. It's pretty fascinating. There obviously no way to return film from a Mars flyby, so they had to take a digital approach. But the technology was so crude in 1965 that they literally
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by nkoren 2y ago
Here's what Apollo used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_photography Here's what Firefly uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_photography Hopefully you can see that from a ra

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